SALT LAKE CITY — As the 2017-18 NBA regular season nears its end, media members and fans have been exposed to all the cliché answers from teams in the playoff picture.
You know the “we’re taking it one game at a time,” “we’re only worried about ourselves” and “we don’t pay attention to the standings.”
Blah, blah, blah …
For those in the postseason hunt, that’s nonsense.
Jazz center Rudy Gobert can attest to that.
“To be honest, I try not to but I’m paying attention,” Gobert said of the Western Conference standings. “We know it’s about us and it doesn’t really matter at this point what other teams do.